Digestive System Rap

energy is obtained by nutritionthat’s how this rhyme will come to fruitionlet’s start with your digestive tractbegins with your mouth and that’s a factteeth and tongue chop up the food you eatmechanical digestion you just can’t beatwhen you want to make the food easier to godown the esophagus or food tube brobefore you swallow there’s one more thingsaliva dissolves starch chemicallyuses an enzyme called amylasegoes on in your mouth while your stuffing your faceChorus:digestion abstracts energyoriginally from the sun you gotta listen to meplants absorb the rays and animals eat plantswe eat plants and animals man it makes me wanna dancesmooth muscles push that food through after you swallowthrough the esophagus, a tube that’s hallowperistalsis it’s calledeven when you’re upside down food fallsinto the stomach, contains HClcoated with mucous, protects it wellenzyme pepsin digests proteinsat amino acid terminals like tyrosineone more step to complete digestionfood goes from stomach to the small intestinefor proteins we have proteasefats broken down by lipaseChorusmaltase there to digest maltosesucrase there to digest sucroseliver makes bile stored in gall bladderthis all happens in the small intestine, a very important matterbile acts by emulsifying fatfood finally hydrolyzed, can ya hear thatlining contains lots of villiinside are capillaries, can you figure out whynutrients are transported by the blood streamtakes it to the cells, systems work as a teamremember other system is circulatorygives the cell energy but that’s another storyfood dried of nutrients now but still lots of waterre-absorption in large intestine is a direct orderforms it into waste, feces is queuedstored in the rectum, ‘till you make a number 2Chorusanimals need to eat and are called heterotrophsplants make food from the sun and are called autotrophsit’s photosynthesis an entirely different processif I explained that right now man it would be a messif you know how and why we need to eat that’s coolmake the right choices don’t be no foolfood eventually enters your blood from your head to your feetthat food becomes you, you are what you eatChorus